January 2008 Archives

Several winners, actually! Last week, we posted a contest to the blog asking for your input on your favorite Lorna's Laces colors in exchange for a chance to win a $50 shopping spree! So many of you responded, and I enjoyed reading all of your favorites and the stories behind them, as well as many nice comments about the store! We're glad that you like it - we really do work hard to give you a great selection and a great customer experience. I'm sure you are all waiting for this, so ... drum roll ... the winner of the drawing for the $50 shopping spree is Jen C. If you are Jen C, we e-mailed you earlier this afternoon about your prize!

Our other winners were, of course, colors. The best surprise was that many of your favorite colors are already stocked at Eat.Sleep.Knit - in fact, the top four were all colors already available in the store.

The dark purple colors are already in stock in Shepherd Sock, and in many cases Lion and Lamb too! The turquoise colors we only stock in Lion and Lamb. The pink bars are colors we don't carry at all - a situation we clearly need to remedy straight away! We'll be adding all three of these to the store, as well as some that didn't make the graph - Buck's Bar, Seaside, Rainbow, and Jeans. We also looked at solid colors, and based on your feedback, we'll be adding Cranberry, Cedar, and Harvest to our Shepherd Sock lines and possibly also the Worsted.

In other news, knitting in the Vixen Camisole continues along...

I'm getting close to the dropping-all-the-purls part, and I'm pretty psyched to see what it looks like (and if it fits). Also exciting - see how much yarn is left there? That is from the original skein of Smooshy. I only have about 25 more rounds to go, and that yarn is plenty to do it, which means that you can knit this top in Dream In Color for about $40 if you can squeeze into a medium or smaller! In fact, I actually cast on the same number of stitches as the XL calls for, decreasing up the sides gradually for most of the top back down to the medium size, so one skein of Smooshy should definitely fit a regular medium and maybe even a large (though I'd recommend only trying that with one skein if you're willing to accept a slightly shorter top should it all end badly...).

I recently got of a mind to try Smooshy for something other than socks, if only I could find the right pattern. After receiving my copy of Sensual Knits a couple of weeks ago (Do you have this book? It is amazing - everyone I know who's seen it finds at least five things they want to cast on for right away.), I discovered the perfect project: the Vixen Camisole.

SInce the pattern calls for a skein of sock yarn and a skein of bulky yarn in the same color, Dream In Color is a perfect choice - all of their yarns come in all of their colors, so a skein of Smooshy and one of Fatty and I was off.

So far, I'm absolutely loving it - at a looser gauge, Smooshy is even softer and smooshier (if you can believe that is possible), and I'm really looking forward to dropping all the purls and seeing how it really looks.

Some of you have e-mailed us requesting that we carry additional colors and yarn lines from Lorna's Laces. With more than a dozen yarn lines and over 100 colors available in each and every one, there are so many combinations that I don't know if we'll ever be able to carry them all (though we'd like to, believe me!). So, here is your chance to vote for your favorite colors, and you might even win some free yarn while doing it!

Yes, free yarn. Comment on this entry or send us an e-mail (eatsleepknit at eatsleepknit dot com) with your most-loved Lorna's Laces colors and what yarns you'd most like to see them in. Everyone who submits their color/yarn choices will be entered into a random drawing for a $50 shopping spree in our store, so get your friends to come and vote for the colors you want most! We'll choose, at the very least, the ten most requested colors for our next order. Make sure you include your name, blog, or e-mail so we can contact you if you win!

The UPS guy brought us a special treat today - three huge boxes from Dream In Color! This was supposed to finally be our long-awaited shipment of Fatty, but when I opened the boxes, I found this:

Yes, that is what you think it is - Baby, the new laceweight yarn from Dream In Color. We now have it in stock in every one of the original colors, plus four of the fabulous new 400 series colors. Look how pretty:

Flamingo Pie

Butter Peeps

Lunar Zazzle

Punky Fuschia

And in case you haven't already left to go ogle the Baby, about three quarters of our Fatty order was in there too! All of the 100 and 200 series colors, and a few of the 300 series. Enjoy!